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Tempted Quotes

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Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.
Georges Bernanos

Authors on Tempted Quotes: Jeanette Winterson William Shakespeare Manolo Blahnik Daniel H. Pink Michel de Montaigne Tom Peters Philip Yancey Anne Frank Gary Kemp Agatha Christie Mary Stewart Rick Warren Polly Horvath John Lydon Warren Buffett Frances O'Connor David Chase Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Abbi Glines John Paul Caponigro Georges Bernanos David Dimbleby Rose Philippine Duchesne Elias Hicks Joseph Heller Rebecca West Lillian Russell Don Herold Indira Gandhi Dane Cook Josh Billings Thomas Jefferson E. A. Bucchianeri
2.
If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.
Rose Philippine Duchesne

3.
When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.
Philip Yancey

4.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William Shakespeare

5.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Don Herold

6.
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik

7.
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
Jean-Paul Sartre

8.
I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.
Byron Katie

9.
... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
Agatha Christie

10.
Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.
Warren Buffett

11.
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
William Shakespeare

12.
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
Joseph Heller

13.
I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.
Jeanette Winterson

14.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

15.
I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
Frances O'Connor

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If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.
John Lydon

17.
If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.
Lillian Russell

18.
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
Josh Billings

19.
I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.
David Dimbleby

20.
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
Rebecca West

21.
People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.
Anne Frank

22.
I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
Jeanette Winterson

23.
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
David Chase

24.
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
Gary Kemp

25.
You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.
Abbi Glines

26.
You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.
Rick Warren

27.
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
Michel de Montaigne

28.
You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.
Elias Hicks

29.
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
Mary Stewart

30.
You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.
Dane Cook

31.
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
John Paul Caponigro

32.
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!
E. A. Bucchianeri

33.
Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.
Daniel H. Pink

34.
I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.
Indira Gandhi

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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
Thomas Jefferson

36.
Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.
Polly Horvath

37.
Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
Tom Peters